Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

26.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

28.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.